Home made chicken nuggets are always welcomed at home, as slightly healthy snacks for you know what you have put in to prepare them. The plus point is you can decide whether you want to lightly marinate the chicken pieces or leave them plain, and make ahead in bigger batches, freeze them for later consumption.
Instead of using bread crumbs as the coating, I use pulverize cornflake cereal or sometimes graham cracker crumbs as i find them to be crispier than bread crumbs.
Ingredients:
1.5kg of chicken breasts
1 cup of flour
1 cup of pulverize cornflake cereal / graham cracker crumbs
3 eggs
Marinate (optional - just for light seasoning)
1 tsp salt
1 tsp black pepper, grinded
dash of garlic powder (optional)
dash of paprika (optional)
Methods:
1. Cut the chicken breasts into equal nugget sized.
2. Marinate the chicken with marinate for 1 hour.
3. Coat each piece of chicken in flour, followed by the egg, followed by crumbs.
4. Place the chicken pieces on a greased or parchment covered baking sheet, bake at 175°C for 20-25 minutes.
5. Let the nuggets cool as it is important to let the nuggets cool before putting them into your freezer bag. DO NOT FREEZE FOOD THAT IS STILL HOT as this can contaminate the food you are freezing.
6. It is easy to heat the chicken nuggets back up - microwave / fry / bake them as you wish and there is no need to have excessive timing to cook them as they were baked to cook earlier on.
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